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Calendar Round

The combination of the 260-day and 365-day counts, repeating after 18,980 days, approximately 52 years.

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Word origin · etymology

Descriptive English scholarly label.

Round refers to the recurring combined cycle of the Haab and sacred count; it is an English explanatory name for their interlocking recurrence.

Smithsonian NMAI: The Calendar System ↗

How we know · epistemology

Combined-cycle arithmetic

The two counts realign after their least common multiple of 18,980 days. A Calendar Round label repeats, so it cannot uniquely identify a historical date without additional chronological information.

Smithsonian NMAI: the Maya calendar system ↗

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  1. Smithsonian NMAI: the Maya calendar system ↗